Comments on: The 5 Steps To A Simple Marriage- Part 5: Living In Community

By: Best Of Simple Marriages, August 2008 | The Simple Marriage Project

Best Of Simple Marriages, August 2008 | The Simple Marriage Project — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:31:51 +0000

[...] The 5 Steps To A Simple Marriage: Part 5- Living In Community [...]

By: hayden tompkins

hayden tompkins — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:05:25 +0000

Can I just tell you that I so love my online community? I met some truly truly amazing people.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:38:32 +0000

I agree with your advice on sitting in the front of your house. I grew up in a suburb outside a major city. Most of my neighbors were immigrants or first generation Americans from Italy, Poland, and Germany. One of my fond memories are of summer nights when neighbors sat on their front stoops watering their grass and JUST SITTING. Eventually, they would chat between yards and as people walked by. It was a cross generational meeting and forged a quiet and caring neighborhood of people that were there when you needed them.

By: Corey

Corey — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:45:57 +0000

@ Tina- Do you both need to get away from society as a couple or separately? If it’s together as a couple, then there’s your community.

By: Laurie

Laurie — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:38:27 +0000

Springing off of Tina’s comments the conflict comes when one spouse has a great need for community and the other one has zero need for it and actually is repelled by the idea. How do you resolve that one and one person feel like he/she not alone all the time within a community or the other person being forced to do something he/she doesn’t want to do?

By: Tina

Tina — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:54:53 +0000

Excellent advice for extroverts! As two introverts we really are hermits and wonderfully happy! After long days at the office we both need to get away from society to recharge.